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R Rey
@ereynosojr.bsky.social
Writing professor in the Central Coast
Aspiring author

www.thederelictsguide.com
Cagle is the truth and does great work yall should read
I have a book chapter I wrote about this!!

More specifically, it's about how tools like web templates help conspiracists move away from traditional visual markers such as wild color templates and mismatched fonts.

Of course LLMs are making it worse.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The title of my memoir
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by R Rey
30 Rock-ass Reality
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
An inbox that cracks open a beer with the words "You did the good job" printed on the label and hands it to me
I want an inbox that literally just shows you the one that you're on, no list or preview of others. maybe in soft purples. playing whale sounds. maybe with interstitial messages about what a good person I am.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Planning for my Christmas trip to Texas, so naturally I'm gonna buy one of these shirts and write "I am Charlie" on it, then look befuddled when questioned about it
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Love how "she depends on checks from her parents back east to cover expenses" is implied as a moral failing and not, oh I dunno, evidence of how dire our conditions are and that maybe THAT'S why people are turning to more "socialist" politicians.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And having been a Purdue grad student for 7 years during the Mitch Daniel’s regime, I can confidently say that the university likely twiddled their thumbs and pretended to be helpless as is their habit when faced with the mistreatment of their students
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
What has always helped me is putting on my robe and wizard hat as well…
not infrequently, my friends will come to me asking for relationship advice, and 90% of the time, my answer is “have you considered being autistically direct in your communication with your partner?”

like.

you can just ask ur partner things. you don’t need to be some kinda relationship haruspex
June 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
For my tech comm/academic peeps: my collaborator, Gabriel Aguilar, just messaged to tell me that our paper "Making Meaning of Demography as Destiny in Professional Communication," won the Lufkin Best Paper Award at ProComm 2025!
June 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My nails? Nine inch.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Saw this headline from the seattle stranger and immediately thought of @lecagle.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fuck. Yes.
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
February 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I know we're in a dark timeline right now, but my hope is that you'll read this and feel hopeful, just for a moment:

www.thederelictsguide.com/blog/drinkin...
Drinking from Hope’s Fountain — The Derelict's Guide to Everyday Living
When I think of the word “depression”, I often picture a sort of living corpse–a body, lying sideways on a couch with the tv on. Not watching, but looking past the screen, their world mired in a dense...
www.thederelictsguide.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Given the preponderance of brain-dead chuds complaining about Kendrick's half time performance, I'd like to point y'all to a similar incident back in 2013. Only this time, it was directed at an 11 year-old kid:

ccdigitalpress.org/book/shortha...
Not the King: Cantando el Himno Nacional de los Estados Unidos by Octavio Pimentel | Racial Shorthand | Edited by Cruz Medina and Octavio Pimentel
ccdigitalpress.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by R Rey
The thing that I’ve always found to be the most upsetting thing about trans bans in sports is how, because there are so few trans women athletes, this is the Federal government going up to the 34 trans athletes at the college level and saying “fuck you specifically”.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 5
President Trump signs an executive order to ban transgender women from women's sports, delivering on a political issue central to his 2024 campaign. cnn.it/3Q4Lvug
February 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hi everyone,
A good friend of ours needs help and a donation, or even a share, could go a long way towards helping. Thanks!

gofund.me/587ca470
Donate to Restore Kelsey's Van and Livelihood, organized by Ricky Reynoso
On January 14, our dear friend Kelsey parked their van in a secure garage before fly… Ricky Reynoso needs your support for Restore Kelsey's Van and Livelihood
gofund.me
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Limp Bizkit is just juggalo-coded Deftones
January 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
First there was "fuckable donuts" and now this.

Cagle is truly our generation's foremost chaos gremlin
Can't stop won't stop (making yip yip hanging baskets)
December 17, 2024 at 3:31 AM
For all my new homies, lemme introduce myself:

I'm Ricky. I'm a writing prof in the PNW. Originally from Texas, lived in the midwest for about 10 years.

All my LGBTQ homies are safe here because I love you.

I posting longer form writing. A sample: www.thederelictsguide.com/blog/where-i...
Where I go — The Derelict's Guide to Everyday Living
One thing I’ve always liked about teaching at a university is how the campus itself feels much more slower paced. Everyone, from professors to students, seem more willing to leave space for expanding ...
www.thederelictsguide.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Use a GIF to show where you're from
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 AM
As a Texan, the fact that there are Six Flags theme parks in other states has pissed me off for DECADES.

Motherfucker, it's called "Six Flags Over Texas" BECAUSE WE ARE THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS HAD SIX FLAGS THAT REPRESENTED OUR TERRITORY! WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A SIX FLAGS IN SANDUSKY?!
November 29, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I'm convinced that we will never see another rapper quite as sweaty and corny as Drake in our lifetimes.

Truly an innovator in the dorkspace.
Drake just signed a legal document acknowledging "Not Like Us" did him great harm.

Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
November 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
I'm tired of railing against my Latino brothers voting like they think their white.

No. Today, I'm thinking of my LGBTQ comrades and the absolute terror they must be feeling.

I see you. I love you. You deserve to be here.
November 7, 2024 at 5:58 AM